Definition of "passional" []

• Of, relating to, or filled with passion. (adjective)
• A book of the sufferings of saints and martyrs. (noun)

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• "Yet it is now certain that most of our deeper feelings are superindividual, -- both those which we classify as passional, and those which we call sublime."
• "What might be called passional sensibility -- desire, emotion, impulse -- is, like physical sensation, another indispensable factor in evolution; it is the special element in the development of the animal kingdom as well as of the less evolved portion of the human kingdom."
• "-- a sudden wakening of that inherited composite memory which is more commonly called passional affinity. '"